disoriented - Story 30494 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Amelia breathed, her voice a reedy whisper. The lawyer's words echoed in her ears, a harsh and unwelcome refrain. "Someone else already has the patent." Her innovative solar-powered cooking pot, the culmination of years of tireless work, rendered…useless. She stared out the window, the bustling city outside a blur of motion and meaningless noise. The chair beneath her felt flimsy, on the edge of collapsing. She felt an urgent need to run, to escape the suffocating confines of the office, to find a place where the air wasn't so heavy.

Emotion: disoriented

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -2.65 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.34

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion disoriented. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 disoriented stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the disoriented emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the disoriented vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`unfamiliar`	0.340
`ness`	0.321
`失去了`	0.316
`не`	0.315
`будто`	0.311

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.474
`la`	-0.419
`K`	-0.409
`de`	-0.309
`brag`	-0.302